Collapsible display device.



J, STRANDERS.

COLLAPSIBLB DISPLAY DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED FEBA, 1911.

Patented June 4, 1912.

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JULIEN 'STRANDER OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN LITHOGRAPHIC COMPANY, OFNEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION 0F vNEIN YORK.

COLLAPSIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE..

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 4, 1912.

Application filed February 4, 1911. Serial No. 606,512.

lsimple construction and which may be readily and easily changed from a collapsed condition to a display condition and as easily changed back again to a collapsed condition.

In its preferred form my improved device comprises features illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein- Figure 1 represents a front perspective View of my device in its display condition. Fig. 2 is a plan view corresponding with Fig. 1. lFig. 3 is a rear View1 illustrating. one embodiment of the means used for holding the device in its display condition. Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic plan view showing the device in its collapsed condition. Fig. 5 illustrates a modification of the means of Fig. 3.

. My improved device relates directly to that class of display devices which are made from sheet material such as card board and which bear on their face or faces representations of one or more articles, and are adapted to represent those articles in a realistic manner for dressing shop windows or the like. l

As representative of theV large and widely varied class of articles suitable for display by means of lmy improvements I have chosenv bottles of an ordinary and well known form..

Also I have' chosen to representy a plurality of rows of such bottles arranged in pyramldal form to simulate theleifect of a pyramid of real bottles.

Referring now more directly to the drawing, my improved device comprises a back preferably "having right and left wings 2, 3 formed of one piece of material having a vertical folding crease 4, or said back may comprisetwo separate wings 2, 3 joined by a foldable connection at 4. As illustrated said wings 2, 3 are notched or stepped at `theirouter edges opposite jointure4, as at 6, 8, 1of wing 2, and.7, 9, 11 ofwing 3. To opposite vertical risers4 as 12, 13 are jointed or articulated opposite ends of front member 5 representing in the present instance a row of bott-les. Said front member 5 is of a width preferably substantially equal to the combined width of wings 2, 3 from edge 12 to edge 13 so that when the device is in its collapsed condition, Fig. 4, front member 5 will lie fiat against wings 2, 3 for economy of'space in packing and shipping. Said front member may be formed integral with back 2, 3 but I have found it more'economical of material and simpler in construction to supply ears 14, 16 to front member5 and which ears are folded back into joints and secured to the inside faces of ,free edges 12, 13 respectively. Front member 15 representing a row of bottles similar to that of front member 5 but comprising a smaller number of bottles,

has a wldth preferably substantially equal tothe combined width of said wings 2, 3 lfrom edge 18 to edge 19 thereof.

Said front member 15 is also provided with ears 20, 21 attached to the inside faces of free edges 18, 19 respectively, all similar and similarly arranged to corresponding parts already described in connection with front member 5. The construction and mounting of front member 25, above front member 15 will be understood without further descri tion. p

Yhen the device is in display condition back wings 2, 3 form. an angle with eachl other and front members 5, 15, 25 are bent into curved form all as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. If my improved device is made of card board, celluloid or any of the variety of other suitable bendable material, said front members will automatif cally assume the bent or curved form illustrated, when wings 2, 3 are folded up from their collapsed condition in one plane, Fig. 4 to their angular relation of Fig. 2. For maintaining my improved device in its display condition I mayv emplo l any of several devices, effective to retam wings 2, 3 in their angular relationof Fig. 2. I preferably employ a tension member, as a plece ofstring 22, passed through hole 17 1n one wing, as 2, andhaving a knot 23 near the end of said string to prevent its pulling through said hole 17. The other end of said string I pass through hole 24 1n the other wing 3 and provide a knot 27 1n sald string at a distance from knot 23 equal to -size to allow knot 26 to pass freely there` through and, to enable string 22 to maintain wings 2, 3 in their relative angular position of Fig. 2,l I provide a narrow slot 26 extending Jfrom hole 24 a short dista-nce in wing 3,- toward joint 4. Said slot 26 is sufficiently narrow to prevent the passage of knot 27 therethrough.` Beyond knot 27 a free portionof string 22 isprovided by which knot 27 may be engaged or dis/engaged withl slot 26. Said free end'of string 22 may terminate in a knot or button 28V `large enough toprevent said-free end from being pulled through hole 24.

In Fig. 5 I have'illustrated the use of a 'cardboard or other strip 30 in place of string 22. Therein said strip 30 may be secured by any suitable means at 31 to wing 2 and provided near its other end with a step or steps. 32 in lieu of knot 27 of string 22 and the hole 33 in win 3^may be modied in shape and size as s own to allow the passage of stepped portion 34 in its wider portion and to engage steps 32 in its narrower portion. Head 35 of strip 30 maybe of suficient additional width to prevent its passage through hole 33. v

As .'an arbitrary choice I have illustrated my device as comprising representations of several pyramided rows of bottles. It is obvious that articles other than bottles, such as packages, boxes, cans or a variety of other articles'could be equally well represented. Also it is not essential to my invention that there be a plurality of rowsl of articles or if there is a plurality of rows that those rows be pyramided.

In View of the present advanced state of the art'inv displa `devices various modications of my device lying within the scope of my claims will readlly occur to those skilled in the art.

I claimz'- 1. A collapsible display device including in combinatioma flexible front member, two rigid back members, each having opposite parallel edges, the respective adjacent edges of each of said members being hinged together, the combinedv width of said back members being substantially equal to the width ofsaid front member, and the opposite outer edges vrespectively of said `back members being hinged to the opposite edges respectively of said front member; a cord secured to one :of said back members2 a hole through the-other back member, said cord passing through said hole and means for securing said cord to that back member; said cord being eiicientwhen thus secured for holding vsaid back 'members in angular relation to each other `and. for holding said flexible front member in curved position.

2. A display device including in combination twovrigid back members hinged together, said members having their opposite outer edges respectively stepped, a plurality Y of flexibleI front members each having their opposite edges hinged to a pair of opposite step risers of said back members and a tension member connecting said rigid back members for maintaining them in angular relation-and for maintaining said front members in curved posit-ion.

Signed this 31st day of January 1911 before two subscribing witnesses.

, JULIEN 'STRANDERS Witnesses: f ANDREW WATERMAN,- W. SULLIVAN. 

